Hour 15. Understanding Live Tiles and Toast Notifications

When your application needs to notify a user that something new has happened that requires their attention, Windows Phone provides the Toast and Live Tile notifications as part of the Microsoft Push Notification Services. These notifications do not require your application to be running, so they can be used to provide information to the user, which might require them to start the application to take an action. In this hour, you learn how to use both Live Tile and Toast notifications.

What Are Live Tile and Toast Notifications?

Live Tile and Toast ...

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